God, I hate the recommendations on G+. I got into one political argument on here, and all that's recommended to me now are articles for and against a certain anti-EU, anti-immigration and pro-racism idiot party that I don't even want to name anymore because Google will see this as a further sign of interest...

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Tobias Kliem: It's a problem with the algorithm, I think. All I see as 'recommended for you' at the moment are those articles, and I'm sure that if I click on one it will get even worse.

Matthew Copperwaite: Same happened to me. I made one jokey post about the unmentioned party and it got railroaded by comments from people I had never spoken to before, twisting it in to this EU hate piece. I had to disable the comments.

It happened similarly with other posts too on theism, getting recommended in to utterly opposite areas of interest.

The problem Google has is it sees an interest crossover and has no way of knowing if it is a positive or negative one and throws at you frankly insulting views.

This will be G+s downfall if it can't get that right.﻿

Tobias Kliem: In the beginning all the recommendations were about some teenage popstars I never heard about. Now it's only political stuff. And while the pro party-that-cannot-be-named posts are sometimes quite offensive, I am also bored by the contra arguments. G+ seems to think harsh debates on immigration are all I care about... Can't we discuss VI vs EMACS again, Google?

ThinkPad battery craps out 6 months after the end of warranty. Lenovo guy on the phone says that "batteries aren't as good as they were anymore" after I remark that my cheap Toshiba notebook from about 10 years ago still has a decent battery life.

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Martin Ellis (Mex): at least you can replace your thinkpad battery...

Tobias Kliem: As much as I like bashing Apple: my wife has a 5 year old Macbook (the cheapest at the time), and the difference in battery life to the purchase date is minimal

Why is every community I subscribe to flooded with people begging for Google invites? I really can't see the point of all this predictive stuff - guess I am too scared of starting to rely on it until at some point the algorithm makes a wrong decision and an important email / event ends up in the bottom of the spam pile...

Trying to set up a task manager that synchronizes between Linux (ideally with command line app) and Android. Nothing really worked so far except RTM, which is too expensive ($25 per year for a few kilobytes of data? Seriously?). Any recommendations?